The Board

Angela Williams

An experienced non-executive director with significant UK and international PLC experience, Angela joined the Northcoders Board as Group Chair in January 2022.

Over her 30+ year Executive career, Angela has led and created customer focused businesses and teams across a wide range of sectors, with particular expertise in HR; strategy design and delivery; customer experience; operational and digital change and transformation; in senior executive roles for companies such as British Airways, Centrica PLC, Land Securities PLC and Sodexo.

Over the past 17 years Angela has undertaken a range of Non-Executive and Chair roles in private and listed businesses, across the private and public sectors. Her work has focussed on scaling and growing businesses, undertaking the successful delivery of M&A and setting two businesses up for successful sale which achieved strong investor returns. Her work also successfully delivered significant business change, transformation, and acquisitions that have driven longer term growth and sustainable profitability.

In addition to extensive experience of Corporate and PLC governance standards and requirements Angela has also been actively involved in defining and delivering value creation plans; go to market/sales and customer strategies and commercial propositions, with and for major corporates (as customer and service provider), as well as delivering award winning learning academies (including digital/technology) for major global organisations. These experiences are already supporting Northcoders’ approach to delivery of both the core business and the development and positioning of Counter.

She has considerable technology sector expertise, having been Non-Executive Chairman of Curo Compensation Ltd, a private equity backed software as a service (‘SaaS’) technology company that led to a successful sale,  and is currently  Non-Executive Director of digital consulting and services company, AND.Digital Ltd. Angela is also a Non-Executive Director of SNG Housing and Chair at Twenty7Tec.

Her previous non-executive directorships include Which? Financial Services Ltd, First Care Ltd (which led to a successful sale by a US based healthcare provider), Sovereign Network Group, C&C Housing Ltd, Defence Equipment and Support, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and Energy and Utility Skills.

Chris Hill

Amul Batra

Prior to joining Northcoders as Director in 2018, Amul spent 20 years in the music industry, latterly as managing director of Fwinki Music, a music management and consultancy company. He left music to set up a technology start-up and elected to sign up to Northcoders first-ever cohort as part of that process. During his time as a student, Amul was attracted by the wider Northcoders business proposition and became an early investor in NCR. He is responsible for critical account business development and has played a vital role in securing many of Northcoders contracts with businesses.

Charlotte Prior

Charlotte joined Northcoders in August 2018. She has over eight years’ experience in finance roles ranging from the construction industry to a registered charity. Charlotte is responsible for managing the financial aspects of the Company, alongside HR and company secretarial matters. She also ensures that management and the Board have all of the information that they need to plan and make informed managerial and strategic decisions.

Nick Parker

Nick, a qualified chartered accountant, is an experienced public company director with strong financial acumen obtained over 30 years working with public and private companies. Previous roles have included being chief executive officer of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club plc and Chief Financial Officer of Dyson Group plc and Wandisco plc, the latter of which he took to IPO in 2011. Nick has been working with Northcoders for the last year and was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Company on 21 July 2021.